NetApp FAS系列存储架构精品.ppt

., Tag line, tag line Data ONTAP Operating System Data ONTAP is the operating system that all NetApp storage systems use. It simplifies storage management and ensures business continuity. Data ONTAP has three main elements that provide speed, reliability, and safety: A real-time mechanism for process execution Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL) file system working NVRAM RAID manager Data Flow Clients interact with the Data ONTAP via the operating system’s networking module. The protocol module is providing the appropriate protocol interfaces. Read and write requests are processed by the WAFL module and its associated memory. NVRAM is used to create a backup copy of the WAFL buffers to prevent data loss. WAFL determines where data will be read from or written to and forwards this information to the RAID manager. The RAID manager will calculate the parity value needed to protect the stored data. With the WAFL data placement and RAID information computed, the storage module writes the blocks to the appropriate disks and determines the new consistency point. Write Request Processing Write requests are received from clients. Each write request is stored in a buffer in memory. A copy of each request is made in the NVLOG. WAFL acknowledges receipt as requests are received. WAFL Write requests received/recorded in NVLOG. WAFL then associates each write request with files on volumes and create a tetris. A tetris is made of up a number of columns that are each associated with a particular disk in a volume. The rows of the tetris are equivalent to the placement on a particular disk. The streams of data then are written and passed to the RAID layer to calculate parity. Storage Layer The storage layer transfers data to physical disks. Once the data is written to the disks, a new root inode is updated and the Consistency Point is complete. NVRAM NVRAM is best viewed as a log. This log stores a subset of incoming file actions. When a request comes in, two things happen: The re